EP3503063B1 - Automation control system for controlling a safety function of remote machine - Google Patents

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EP3503063B1
EP3503063B1 EP17210455.6A EP17210455A EP3503063B1 EP 3503063 B1 EP3503063 B1 EP 3503063B1 EP 17210455 A EP17210455 A EP 17210455A EP 3503063 B1 EP3503063 B1 EP 3503063B1
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  • the present invention relates to the field of automation control systems.
  • Automation control systems are widely deployed for controlling machines in manufacturing industries. In this context, reliable control of safety functions of remote machines, such as emergency stop, is of particular interest. Therefore, the control systems are usually designed as multichannel control systems, having for example two channels for communicating safety related control signals.
  • a telecommunication infrastructure In order to transmit a control signal to a machine, a telecommunication infrastructure is required. Traditionally, in order to remotely control a machine, the Profibus technology and the Profinet protocol can be used.
  • the transmission of the control signals is usually performed using a wired network.
  • wired networks are inflexible and expensive, in particular in multichannel control systems.
  • the infrastructure costs associated with wired networks can be reduced using wireless LAN (WLAN) communications.
  • WLAN communication systems are designed for short range which is typically 30m.
  • a reliability of WLAN communication systems can be reduced in difficult channel conditions, in particular with increasing number of network entities communicating over the WLAN communication infrastructure or other radio technologies interfering by using the same frequency resources as WLAN.
  • US 2015/282122 A1 discloses a method and an apparatus for grouping a plurality of beams into a plurality of beam groups and scheduling for communication of a mobile station in a wireless communication system supporting multi-input multi-output, MIMO.
  • WO 2010/105670 A1 discloses a method and apparatus for controlling transmissions from four antennas of a device using a precoding code book, wherein the code book comprises a plurality of entries and the entries are such that a single layer is mapped to each selected antenna.
  • US 2010/0177660 A1 discloses a wireless multi-function network device for use on a wireless communication network, that can serve multiple functions and dynamically switch and reconfigure from a network router into a network coordinator when the originally designated network coordinator is disabled, as well as a mesh-type communication network including a plurality of wireless network router devices, each capable of performing the functions of a network coordinator, wherein a wireless network coordinator device can automatically establish a personal area network on a wireless communication network.
  • EP 2 884 583 A1 discloses an automation control system for wirelessly controlling a safety function of a remote machine.
  • the disclosure is based on the finding, that the above object can be solved when deploying a mobile communication structure which is usually used for mobile communications of e.g. smartphones for wirelessly controlling a machine or an actuator of a machine.
  • the disclosure relates to an automation control system for wirelessly controlling a safety function of remote machine
  • the automation control system comprising a base station being configured to transmit a control signal for controlling the safety function using a first transmit signal of a first safety channel, and to transmit the control signal using a second transmit signal of a second safety channel, the base station being configured to transmit the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal according to a mobile communications technology, and a control receiver being arranged spaced apart from the base station, the control receiver comprising: a communication interface being configured to receive the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal, a processor being configured to extract a first received version of the control signal from the first received transmit signal, to extract a second received version of the control signal from the second received transmit signal, and an electrical interface which is connectable with an interface of the machine for controlling the safety function of the machine upon the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal.
  • Using mobile communications technology instead of WLAN enables transmitting the control signal via two or more channels according to mobile communication standards.
  • the infrastructure costs might be increased when compared to using e.g. WLAN transmission.
  • mobile communication technologies support establishing two or more safety channels for transmitting control signals with an increased reliability.
  • the base station can have features of base stations for supporting mobile communications, and can be a micro-cell base station.
  • the cell covered by the base station corresponds to the size of the area with machines that should be controlled.
  • control receiver In order to dedicatedly transmit a control signal towards a respective machine, the control receiver can be uniquely associated or co-located with the machine too be controlled. However, the same control receive can be associated with several machines.
  • the control receiver acts in the communication network for example as a subscriber having its own subscriber identity. Therefore, each control receiver and thus each machine can dedicatedly be addressed by the base station.
  • the control receiver is electrically connectable or connected with the machine using the electrical interface, for example a clamp connector. Therefore, the control signal can be provided to the machine using e.g. the infrastructure for wired connections.
  • the respectively received version of the control signal corresponds in an example to the transmitted version of the control signal.
  • the received version of the control signal may be affected by transmission errors, which can be detected by e.g. comparing the received versions of the control signal with each other.
  • the remote receiver can be arranged or directly implemented in the machine.
  • the automation control system comprises the machine and the remote receiver implemented in the machine.
  • the base station can communicate with the remote controller using broadcasting or beamforming.
  • the base station is configured to generate the control signal for controlling the safety function.
  • the base station can be configured to control functions of the machine or functions of a plurality of machines.
  • the base station can implement an automation controller.
  • the automation controller can be a separate entity and can provide the control signals to the base station for transmission using a wired or wireless communication channel.
  • the automation controller can form another subscriber which communicates with the respective remote controller via the base station, which provides access to the remote controller.
  • the base station is configured to transmit the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal occupying any band that is licensed for mobile communications, in particular a frequency band extending from 1.8 GHz to 6 GHz and/or 24.25 GHz to 29,5 GHz and/or at 31.8 to 33.4 GHz and/or 37 GHz to 40 GHz.
  • This increases the reliability of transmission of the control signal because a licensed frequency band is accessible for fewer authorized entities compared to a non-licensed frequency band.
  • the base station can in addition transmit real time control signals using the licensed frequency band.
  • Other signals which are non-real-time signals, i.e. not time sensitive signals such as maintenance signals, can be transmitted using the mobile communication technology in non-licensed frequency bands.
  • the base station is configured to transmit the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal according to one of the following communication technologies: GSM, LTE, LTE-A, UMTS, HSPA, 3GPP, in particular 3GPP NR, New Radio, 5G or IEEE radio systems such as Wireless LAN, WiGig, or any of the evolutions and successors of these technologies.
  • the base station is configured to combine the control signal with a first orthogonal spreading code to obtain the first transmit signal, and to combine the control signal with a second orthogonal spreading code to obtain the second transmit signal.
  • the first transmit signal and the second first transmit signal are at least partially orthogonal with respect to each other, each forming an orthogonal channel for transmission.
  • code diversity can be achieved.
  • the processor of the control receiver is configured to combine a receive signal with a code version of the first orthogonal spreading code to obtain the first received transmit signal, and to combine the receive signal with a code version of the second orthogonal spreading code to obtain the second received transmit signal.
  • the respective code version can be a conjugated transpose version of the respective code, so that orthogonal filtering can be performed.
  • the base station is configured to transmit the first transmit signal using a first transmission beam which is spatially directed towards the control receiver, and to transmit the second transmit signal using a second transmission beam which is spatially directed towards the control receiver.
  • the base station comprises a beamforming antenna with an array of antenna elements, in particular phased antenna elements, wherein the base station is configured to drive the array of antenna elements using a first beamforming signal to generate the first transmission beam, and to drive the array of antenna elements using a second beamforming signal to generate the second transmission beam, the first beamforming signal and the second beamforming signal differing from each other, in particular differing in phase or/and frequency.
  • the beamforming signals can be associated with a certain phase for generating spatially directed transmission beams.
  • multiple channels forming e.g. safety channels can be established using space diversity or orthogonal coding.
  • the beams can be fixedly directed towards the respective control receiver, and the codes can be fixedly assigned to the control receivers.
  • the base station is configured to drive different sub-arrays of the array of antenna elements to generate the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam.
  • the subarrays can be driven using different phases in order to generate different beams.
  • the base station is configured to generate the respective transmission beam using a beamforming codebook according to a MIMO communication technology.
  • the codebook can for example indicate an amplitude and/or a phase of a signal driving the respective antenna element or several antenna elements to generate the spatially directed beam.
  • the codebook can have an entry 1 + j1 defining an amplitude and a phase of a complex signal.
  • the communication interface of the control receiver comprises a receiving antenna comprising an array of antenna elements for receiving the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam.
  • a receiving antenna comprising an array of antenna elements for receiving the first transmission beam and the second transmission beam.
  • the automation control system is further adapted for controlling a safety function of a further remote machine arranged spaced apart from the remote machine, further comprising a further remote control receiver being associated with the further remote machine, wherein the base station is configured to transmit a further control signal for controlling the safety function of a further machine using a third transmit signal of a first safety channel, and to transmit the further control signal using a fourth transmit signal of a second safety channel, the base station being configured to transmit the third transmit signal using a third transmission beam which is spatially directed towards the further control receiver, and to transmit the fourth transmit signal using a fourth transmission beam which is spatially directed towards the further control receiver.
  • the base station can communicate with a plurality of control receivers to control a plurality of machines.
  • the control receivers can have corresponding features, so that the description with respect to the remote control receiver correspondingly applies to all remote control receivers.
  • the further control receiver comprises: a communication interface being configured to receive the third transmit signal and the fourth transmit signal, a processor being configured to extract a first received version of the further control signal from the third received transmit signal, to extract a second received version of the further control signal from the fourth received transmit signal; and an electrical interface which is connectable with an interface of the further machine for controlling the safety function of the further machine upon the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal.
  • the respective processor is configured to compare the first received version of the respective control signal and the second received version of the respective control signal for detecting a transmission error.
  • the electrical interface of the respective control receiver is adapted for a wired connection with an electrical interface of the respective remote machine or wherein the respective machine interface is a clamp interface.
  • the electrical interface of the respective control receiver comprises a first clamp adapted for outputting the first received version of the respective control signal and a second clamp for outputting the second received version of the respective control signal.
  • the two channels can be separately provided to the machine.
  • the respective control receiver comprises a SIM (subscriber identity module) or eSIM (embedded SIM), in particular eUICC (embedded universal integrated circuit card, and a subscriber identity such as IMSI (international mobile subscriber identity) or elD (electronic identity), or ICCID (integrated circuit card identifier).
  • SIM subscriber identity module
  • eSIM embedded SIM
  • eUICC embedded universal integrated circuit card
  • subscriber identity such as IMSI (international mobile subscriber identity) or elD (electronic identity)
  • ICCID integrated circuit card identifier
  • the base station handles the respective control receiver as a subscriber, so that for communications with the respective remote controller mobile communication protocols can be used.
  • the disclosure relates to a control receiver for controlling a safety function of a remote machine in an automation control system that comprises a base station being configured to transmit a control signal for controlling the safety function using a first transmit signal of a first safety channel, and using a second transmit signal of a second safety channel, the base station being configured to transmit the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal according to a mobile communications technology
  • the control receiver comprises: a communication interface being configured to receive the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal; a processor being configured to extract a first received version of the control signal from the first received transmit signal, to extract a second received version of the control signal from the second received transmit signal; and an electrical interface which is connectable with an electrical interface of the machine for controlling the safety function of the machine upon the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal; wherein the control receiver is arranged spaced apart from the base station.
  • the control receiver of the second aspect has according to examples the features of the control receiver as described with regard to the first aspect and its examples.
  • the disclosure relates to machine having a safety function that is controllable by a control signal, the control signal being transmittable by a base station for controlling the safety function using a first transmit signal of a first safety channel, and using a second transmit signal of a second safety channel, the base station being configured to transmit the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal according to a mobile communications technology
  • the machine comprises: the control receiver of the second aspect, wherein the electrical interface is configured to output the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal; and an electrical interface being electrically connectable to the electrical interface of the control receiver for receiving the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal; and a processor being configured to control the safety function of the machine on the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal.
  • the electrical interface of the control receiver is adapted for a wired connection with the electrical interface of the machine, e.g. using an electric connector or a clamp.
  • control receiver is embedded in the machine, so that the electrical interface of the control receiver and the electrical interface are fixedly connected.
  • the processor is configured to compare the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal in order to detect transmission errors.
  • the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal both can correspond to the transmitted control signal, so that the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal bot can be using for controlling the machine, in particular an actuator of the machine such as emergency switch or a power switch or a relais.
  • the disclosure relates to an automation control method for wirelessly controlling a safety function of remote machine with the automation control system according the first aspect, the automation control method comprising: transmitting a control signal for controlling the safety function using a first transmit signal of a first safety channel and transmitting the control signal using a second transmit signal of a second safety channel by the base station according to a mobile communications technology towards the remote control receiver; receiving the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal by the control receiver; extracting a first received version of the control signal from the first received transmit signal and second received version of the control signal from the second received transmit signal; and providing the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal via the electrical interface of the remote control receiver to the machine in order to control the safety function of the machine.
  • the disclosure relates to a computer program comprising a computer readable program code which, when executed on base station and/or the remote control receiver of the automation control system, performs the method according to the second aspect.
  • the disclosure relates to a computer programm product comprising the computer program according to the thirs aspect.
  • a disclosure in connection with a described method may also hold true for a corresponding device or system configured to perform the method and vice versa.
  • a corresponding device may include a unit to perform the described method step, even if such unit is not explicitly described or illustrated in the figures.
  • Fig. 1 shows an automation control system 100 for wirelessly controlling a safety function of a remote machine 121.
  • the automation control system 100 comprises a base station 101 that is configured to transmit a control signal for controlling the safety function using a first transmit signal 103 of a first safety channel, and to transmit the control signal using a second transmit signal 105 of a second safety channel.
  • the first safety channel and the second safety channel are provided for safe transmission of the control signal, and formed by the respective transmit signal 103, 105.
  • the base station 101 further comprises a control receiver 111 being arranged spaced apart from the base station 101.
  • the control receiver 111 comprises a communication interface 115 being configured to receive the first transmit signal 103 and the second transmit signal 105, a processor 117 being configured to extract a first received version of the control signal from the first received transmit signal, to extract a second received version of the control signal from the second received transmit signal, and an electrical interface 119 which is connectable or connected with an interface of the machine 121 for controlling the safety function of the machine 121 upon the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal.
  • the base station 101 can be configured to transmit control signals to a plurality of remote control receivers according to the principles described herein.
  • Fig. 1 therefore exemplarily shows a further remote control receiver 113 having a receiving or communication interface 125 being configured to receive a third transmit signal 107 and the fourth transmit signal 109 from the base station 101 that transmits a further control signal further control signal for controlling a safety function of a further machine 133 using the third transmit signal 107 of a first safety channel, and to transmit the further control signal using the fourth transmit signal 109 of a second safety channel.
  • the further remote control receiver 113 correspondingly comprises a processor 127 being configured to extract a first received version of the further control signal from the third received transmit signal, to extract a second received version of the further control signal from the fourth received transmit signal, and an electrical interface 129 which is connectable with an electrical interface of the further machine, e.g. by clamping, for controlling the safety function of the further machine 133 upon the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal.
  • the transmission signals 103-109 can be made orthogonal with respect to each other using orthogonal spreading codes, whereby a CDMA transmission scheme can be deployed.
  • the respective electrical interface 119, 129 of the respective control receiver 111, 113 can be adapted for wired connection.
  • the respective electrical interface 119, 129 can comprise a first clamp 123-1, 131-1 adapted for outputting the first received version of the respective control signal and a second clamp 123-2, 131-2 for outputting the second received version of the respective control signal.
  • the transmission signals 103-109 can be transmitted using separated transmission beams.
  • the transmission signals 103, 105 are transmitted using transmission beams, and the transmission signals 107, 109 are transmitted using the CDMA transmission scheme.
  • the transmit signals 130-109 can be transmitted upon the basis of the Profinet or Profibus scheme.
  • the respective control signal for controlling the respective remote machine 121, 133 can be generated in the base station 101, having an integrated automation controller 301.
  • the respective remote machine 121, 133 can be generated by a remote automation controller 303 which provided the respective control signal to the base station 101 via a wired or wireless communication network.
  • the remote controller 303 can be handled as another subscriber in the communication cell served by the base station 101. Therefore, the remote controller 303 can have its own subscribe identity as described herein, and communicate with the base station 101 using a mobile telecommunication technology as described herein.
  • the remote controller 303 can transmit the respective transmit signal 103-109 towards the base station 101 in a multichannel fashion. In this embodiment, the remote controller 303 can initiate a call or a data session towards the respective control receiver 111, 113 using the base station 101.
  • the base station 101 is configured to transmit the first transmit signal 103 and the second transmit signal 105 with the control signal relating to the safety function occupying any band that is licensed for mobile communications, in particular a frequency band extending from 1.8 GHz to 6 GHz and/or 24.25 GHz to 29,5 GHz and/or at 31.8 to 33.4 GHz and/or 37 GHz to 40 GHz.
  • the base station 101 can transmit further signals, which e.g.do not relate to controlling safety functions, using frequency bands which are unlicensed and typically used for WLAN (so-called RLAN bands in Europe for example), e.g. RLAN bands at 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz or 60 GHz.
  • RLAN bands e.g. RLAN bands at 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz or 60 GHz.
  • the first transmit signal 103 and the second transmit signal 105 can be transmitted in the same licensed frequency band, or in different licensed frequency bands.
  • the first transmit signal 103 and the second transmit signal 105 can be transmitted using different transmission parameters or channel parameters relating to modulation, error coding, data rate, bit error probability, or delay.
  • the base station 101 can be configured to transmit real-time communications in one or several licensed frequency bands, and to transmit non-real-time communications in non-licensed frequency bands.
  • the protocols used to transmit real-time communications such as real-time control and the non-real-time communications such as maintenance functions or software updates or retrieving system information can chose different frequencies or frequency bands.
  • the protocol stack can comprise for real-time communications and non-real-time communications, i.e. non time critical communications a common standard Ethernet layer.
  • Real-time communications can be handled using a Profinet real-time channel following the Ethernet layer, whereas non time critical communications can be handled by an IP layer followed by TCP/UDP layer.
  • the Profinet real-time channel and the TCP/UDP layer can converge in the Profinet application layer.
  • real-time communications and non-real-time communications can be mapped on different frequencies or on two frequency bands for double, i.e. redundant, transmission.
  • Fig. 4 depicts a diagram of an automation control method 400 for wirelessly controlling a safety function of the remote machine 121, the automation control method 400 comprising: transmitting 401 a control signal for controlling the safety function using the first transmit signal 103 of a first safety channel and transmitting the control signal using a second transmit signal 105 of a second safety channel by the base station 101 according to a mobile communications technology towards the remote control receiver 111, receiving 403 the first transmit signal 103 and the second transmit signal 105 by the control receiver, extracting 405 a first received version of the control signal from the first received transmit signal 103 and second received version of the control signal from the second received transmit signal 105, and outputting 407 the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal via the electrical interface 119 of the remote control receiver 111 to the machine 121 in order to control the safety function of the machine 121.
  • Fig. 5 shows a block diagram of the machine 121 having a safety function that is controllable by a control signal, the control signal being transmittable by the base station 101 for controlling the safety function using a first transmit signal of a first safety channel, and using a second transmit signal 103 of a second safety channel, the base station 101 being configured to transmit the first transmit signal 103 and the second transmit signal 105 according to a mobile communications technology
  • the machine 121 comprises: the control receiver 111, wherein the electrical interface 119 is configured to output the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal, and an electrical interface 501 being electrically connectable to the electrical interface 119 of the control receiver 111 for receiving the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal, and a processor 503 being configured to control the safety function of the machine 121 on the basis of the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal.
  • the processor 503 is configured to compare the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal in order to detect transmission errors.
  • the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal both can correspond to the transmitted control signal, so that the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal bot can be using for controlling the machine 121, in particular an optional actuator 505 of the machine 121, such as emergency switch or a power switch or a relais.
  • the automation control method can further comprise controlling the safety function of the remote machine, e.g. an emergency stop using the first received version of the control signal and the second received version of the control signal
  • the automation control method can be implemented in hardware and/or in software.

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PL17210455T PL3503063T3 (pl) 2017-12-22 2017-12-22 System sterowania automatyzacją do sterowania funkcją bezpieczeństwa zdalnej maszyny
EP17210455.6A EP3503063B1 (en) 2017-12-22 2017-12-22 Automation control system for controlling a safety function of remote machine
ES17210455T ES2795693T3 (es) 2017-12-22 2017-12-22 Sistema de control de automatización para controlar una función de seguridad de una máquina remota
KR1020207018023A KR102180840B1 (ko) 2017-12-22 2018-11-14 원격 기계의 안전 기능을 제어하기 위한 자동화 제어 시스템
JP2020534903A JP7043606B2 (ja) 2017-12-22 2018-11-14 リモートマシンの安全機能を制御する自動化制御システム
PCT/EP2018/081145 WO2019120762A1 (en) 2017-12-22 2018-11-14 Automation control system for controlling a safety function of remote machine
CN201880082721.8A CN111512350B (zh) 2017-12-22 2018-11-14 用于控制远程机器的安全功能的自动化控制***
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